Tarping the front of a load of pipe?

Most of this tarping is bull, i've hauled to many loads to count that can't get wet or dirty to only watch it be unloaded at the reciever and left out in the rain or loaded on there company truck and delivered to a job with no tarp at all, happens all the time with steel plat must tarp all ready wet and rusty deliver and it go's back out in the rain, same with the smoke tarp it's funny i see no local distributers trucks running around with smoke tarps on.

 

I've had to tarp loads to protect them from road salt and grime in the winter time and I get there and they do set them outside in the weather but they are not subject to the salt or road grime.

That's usually the case with steel.

As far as smoke tarps are concerned...Their company trucks can do whatever they want to but I'm not gonna pay a freight claim for being to lazy to take 5 minutes to put on a smoke tarp.
They pay for tarping, They get tarping...No matter what!
If there is no tarp pay I don't tarp and if they say It has to be tarped anyway...I don't accept the load.

 

I have hauled lumber from yeards where the lumber was in muddy lots out in the rian snow and what ever else and the load had to be tarped then deliver it to a nother yard where it sits in the mudd and rain

 

Yea...But lumber pays so well that they want you to earn all that money they're paying...

 

Ive hauled lumber before, all the way from Boston area to the menards in Eau Claire WI. Didnt tarp a #### inch of it I said no way no how I aint tarping it. An guess what, they let me go and it was pouring rain out... Oh yeah it was in a dry van box to.... LMAO..... I was gonna say to, if they require you to use a smoke tarp, or tarp a load. Then you see the companies day cabs hauling off with no tarps or anything, thats there load they can do what they want with it...

 

The cardboard is just going to the ports and then loaded on Chinese ships to get recycled and sold back to us....
I have hauled cardboard from Tucson, Phoenix, and Vegas to Chino (Where it's reloaded into containers)...believe me...It doesn't require tarping....

I have hauled lumber out of OR and Gardener trucks were pulling out of the same mill.....Those mesh tarps must be ok with Weyerhaeuser...

 

Yeah...Uh...huh...sure it does.....
What is tarped lumber now...$.20/m?...and Somebody would haul it for that too.....

 

Because the person paying for the stuff to be moved wants it that way. It's the nature of serving customers. People have to do it how the customer wants or let someone else get that customers money.

 

Rhetorical Question....

If the customer wants me to wrap the load with duct tape and pay extra...I'll do it for them......
Although I had a shipper that removed my pipe stakes and my dunnage...4" X 6" and load the pipe on 2" X 4" dunnage......


TX requires staked loads and if the stakes are in stake pockets...they must be chained.....

The shipper said that was the first time they heard of that.....Sometimes the customer is wrong.......